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Old February 22nd, 2007 #1
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Any Fedora Core users out there?

I've had a lot of luck configuring my Linux desktop as a replacement for Windows. I'm sure there are other distributions that can be configured rather quickly too.

Wanted to pass on a few links that helped me configure the system, especially for the multimedia players.

Fedora Tips & Tricks for FC4 ,5, & 6
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/
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Old February 22nd, 2007 #2
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Any Fedora Core users out there?

I've had a lot of luck configuring my Linux desktop as a replacement for Windows. I'm sure there are other distributions that can be configured rather quickly too.

Wanted to pass on a few links that helped me configure the system, especially for the multimedia players.

Fedora Tips & Tricks for FC4 ,5, & 6
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/

When I used Fedora I found this website to be very helpful with
regards to setting up repositories and getting NVIDIA drivers and java
installed and working.
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#getsoftware

Here is an easy how 2 on ExecShield
http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Dumm...e/id-2900.html
 
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When I used Fedora ..
What distro are you using? Why?
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Old February 23rd, 2007 #4
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I used to have RedHat on some of my desktop machines, Mandrake on others. The two distros are very alike, the feature I like in Mandrake is the automated install, checking dependencies - urpmi. Something like the yum for Fedora/RedHat, but more mature (I think), and with more mirrors.

For servers I use them interchangeably, both work great.

Thanks for moving the Aryan Linux thread here, Geoff. I'll be posting a new version soon, with a kewl NS-based theme.
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I used to have RedHat on some of my desktop machines, Mandrake on others. The two distros are very alike, the feature I like in Mandrake is the automated install, checking dependencies - urpmi. Something like the yum for Fedora/RedHat, but more mature (I think), and with more mirrors.

For servers I use them interchangeably, both work great.

Thanks for moving the Aryan Linux thread here, Geoff. I'll be posting a new version soon, with a kewl NS-based theme.
As far as desktop use is concerned, for I'm mainly interested in getting off the windows treadmill of bloat and inefficiency, I'm pretty happy with FC6.

But there is one thing about FC6 I don't like, and that is manually installing the the multimedia players and codes. Of course, there is good reason for this since those players are copyrighted.

Still, I know some distros bundle them, like Mandriva and Ubuntu. But I would never use Ubuntu due to their marketing slogans.
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Old February 23rd, 2007 #6
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As far as desktop use is concerned, for I'm mainly interested in getting off the windows treadmill of bloat and inefficiency, I'm pretty happy with FC6.

But there is one thing about FC6 I don't like, and that is manually installing the the multimedia players and codes. Of course, there is good reason for this since those players are copyrighted.

Still, I know some distros bundle them, like Mandriva and Ubuntu. But I would never use Ubuntu due to their marketing slogans.
I think there are unofficial Mplayer rpm's for Fedora. I always compile it myself though, they somehow manage to screw up the freetype support in the rpm's, so Bulgarian subtitles never work... The other player I like very much is VLC, and it works fine from rpm install (codecs are included).

What video players do you use?
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I think there are unofficial Mplayer rpm's for Fedora. I always compile it myself though, they somehow manage to screw up the freetype support in the rpm's, so Bulgarian subtitles never work... The other player I like very much is VLC, and it works fine from rpm install (codecs are included).

What video players do you use?
Mplayer, and it works fine. The RPM install wasn't bad.

FC comes bundled with something called totem, which is IMHO worthless.
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What distro are you using? Why?

I use FreeBSD for all of my computing needs. I like the idea of
installing Xorg and building the system *I want* from ports. If you
haven't tried FreeBSD you need to check it out, over 16,000 programs in
the ports tree to choose from. The only down side is native flash
support (You can install linux-firefox/linux-opera) and use flash on
those, it can also be a bit time consuming to install some programs as
they are built and installed from source on a 2.4-ghz amd64 it takes
about 20/25 minutes to install Firefox, since the program/s are built
from source they're optimized for your box, so you have some advantages
of building and installing your programs.

If you don't want the hassle of installing FreeBSD/configuring X
manually setting up your hardware you can check out PC-BSD. It
configures X and detects all of your hardware, comes with a PF firewall
that can be enabled during install, It comes bundled with KDE. PC-BSD
is basically FreeBSD with a GUI installer.
 
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Mplayer, and it works fine. The RPM install wasn't bad.

FC comes bundled with something called totem, which is IMHO worthless.
I don't like totem either.. Xine is also a nice multimedia player. I had to install win32-codecs seperatley but wmv files work just fine. Some people like VLC over both mplayer and Xine.

A program that you defiantly want to check out is called 'plugger' you
can watch vids/listen to Mp3's right from your browser.

====================================
Tired of getting teased by Windows users because your Mozilla isn't as
|<()()|_ as theirs? Well, your problems are almost solved. Plugger is a
multimedia plugin for Unix Mozilla, Opera or Netscape that handles
Quicktime, MPEG, MP2, AVI, SGI-movie, Tiff, DL, IFF-anim, MIDI,
Soundtracker, AU, WAV and Commodore 64 audio files. And now, with
Plugger 5.1.3, MPEG audio and video can be played streaming. No more
waiting! Plugger is a very small plugin, because Plugger uses external
programs to show/play the different formats.
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
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I use FreeBSD for all of my computing needs.
I've never ran of any type of BSD unix. Though for many years I ran Slackware Linux, which shares some features of the BSDs.

Actually, I'm not a big fan of Fedora/Redhat.

But I adopted it for Desktop use a year or so ago - not as a server though. As a replacement for Windows it is pretty good. And by replacement, I mean Windows type of use: web browsing, email, office, desktop publishing and multimedia. Though I now read that some distros are bundling all that proprietary media stuff in and, of course, are more convenient than FC.

I think White Nationalists that have the capacity to understand Linux or BSD technology ought to dump Windows. Stop buying Bill Gates' crap software which he then takes the money to "save" niggers in Africa.
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Old February 24th, 2007 #11
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I've never ran of any type of BSD unix. Though for many years I ran Slackware Linux, which shares some features of the BSDs.

Actually, I'm not a big fan of Fedora/Redhat.

But I adopted it for Desktop use a year or so ago - not as a server though. As a replacement for Windows it is pretty good. And by replacement, I mean Windows type of use: web browsing, email, office, desktop publishing and multimedia. Though I now read that some distros are bundling all that proprietary media stuff in and, of course, are more convenient than FC.

Have you checked out SUSE Linux? If you want a Windows like desktop OTB
'out of the box' Suse is the way to go. Suse has apparently secured licenses with both Sun/Java and
Adobe/Flash- Both can be installed during the initial install.


I think White Nationalists that have the capacity to understand Linux or BSD technology ought to dump Windows. Stop buying Bill Gates' crap software which he then takes the money to "save" niggers in Africa.
I agree, I haven't used windows for many years. Not only that, look at
how much you spend on software.
 
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Still, I know some distros bundle them, like Mandriva and Ubuntu. But I would never use Ubuntu due to their marketing slogans.
I just installed Fedora Core 6 a few days ago -- I had trouble with my video card driver and I struggled with it for quite a while, until today (I couldn't get more than 640x480 resolution). I was tempted to try another distribution, especially Ubuntu (because word is that it's the easiest Linux to use), but I wanted to hear VNN users' opinions of it first (I was worried about the African-sounding name, so I searched for that word over here). This thread came up and your words inspired me to persevere and overcome the problem on my own (with the help of a few search engines).

Linux may be a pain in the arse to set up, but I think my computing skills will only improve by using it as my primary OS after suffering 12+ years of atrophy with Windows. My main motivation for switching after mulling about it for the past 5 years was the fact that Vista has made any PCs that are older than 6 months obsolete because it is a resource hog. Microsoft and hardware manufacturers want the sheeple to upgrade as much as possible because of built-in obsolescence (this is fairly evident if you do a clean install of Win98 on a P2 machine right now--after the mandatory online updates, it runs like crap). I figure I can extend the life of my current PC (768 MB RAM, 2.2 GHZ P4, 80 GB HD) for another 5-10 years with Linux.

So far, I'm pretty happy with Fedora, the boot process is slow because of DAM timeout errors, but I'm sure that I can find a way to overcome these. What's great is that Linux seems to be very memory efficient--I can use instant messaging or surf the web without my hard drive sounding like it's about to have a heart attack.

Can you tell me more about the marketing slogan of Ubuntu? Does it involve racemixing, political correctness and other AmeriKWAN crap?
 
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I just installed Fedora Core 6 a few days ago -- I had trouble with my video card driver and I struggled with it for quite a while,...
If you're having any trouble with Fedora Core please visit their forum. I spend a lot of time there and there are many consise and useful FAQs and Howtos - I'm sure they'll address your video card issue.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org

I like Fedora Core and use it for my desktop PC: web browsing, email, multimedia, and office. The FC distro is committed to being free of all non opensource software, so you'll need to install all the multimedia apps yourself.

Multimedia directions are here:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=100206

As far as Ubuntu... it has the largest user base and is designed for maximum ease of use. Ya, its got a multiculti theme to it, but if you want a good disto loaded with all the bells and whistles that usually configures everything automatically like Windows than it is a great distro.

But so is

http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

Here is another site I visit that keeps on top of the distro news:

http://distrowatch.com/
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